He was actively involved in Total Rock Radio, which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and was a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009. In the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988. Dome is also credited with inventing the term "thrash metal" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984. Malcolm Dome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981. His first book, Encyclopedia Metallica, published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year. We are the quintessential band that even our biggest fans wouldn’t recognise in the street.” We were still anonymous, and very happy to be so. So, having a big hit didn’t change anything. I think Ian framed the cheque! But the fans embraced the song, and the record label loved the fact we could have a hit, despite our seemingly low profile.” Alan paid up when he knew it was going to be successful. He famously bet guitarist Ian Bairnson that it would be a huge flop as a single. I had to fight him all the way to record this, and even then he was convinced we had made a huge mistake. “The strongest reaction was from Alan Parsons. That was also referred to as an ‘eye in the sky’, and I thought it would make a good subject for a song.” But it crystallised in my mind when I was shown the security system at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Stations had their ‘eye in the sky’ covering all sorts of events, from cop car chases to the weather report. “At the time, everywhere you looked in America that phrase was being used. Where did the inspiration for Eye In The Sky come from?
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